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"Wasted Lesson in
Morals" (followed by "The Medical Examination") , c. 1670 by Godfried Schalcken
(1643-1706) - Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands.NOTE: A woman who wasted her morals is now confronted with
the diagnosis of pregnancy through the examination of her urine - doctors were
often called then "piss-prophets".
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